New Mexico Diversity Fellowship
Project Description:
The Center for Development and Disability (CDD) aims to prepare self-advocates from the racially and ethnically diverse state of New Mexico to assume leadership roles in disability systems through the creation of a formal Diversity Fellowship. Goal: A cohort of self-advocates who completed the Diversity Fellowship will engage in making systemic change in community based activities, organizations, policy and/or programs in New Mexico and the nation. Objectives: 1) Recruit and enroll a self-advocate Diversity Fellow (DF); 2) DF will complete a Capstone project that identifies leadership competencies and learning activities for the self-advocacy leadership curriculum; 3) Develop and pilot methods for integrating self-advocates as full participants in community based activities; 4) Disseminate the competencies and methods for supporting self-advocates as full participants; and 5) Create a sustainability plan that includes the recruitment of 1-2 self-advocates who are racially or ethnically diverse for the Fellowship fall 2017 and a Capstone experience concerned with supports, systems, policies or programs impacting his/her life. The Diversity Fellowship program will partner with NMLEND which will provide the fellows with access to both interdisciplinary practice and leadership training. Outcome: A sustainable Diversity Fellowship at the CDD will be created with community partners by recruiting a self-advocate from a diverse background to participate in a fellowship who will implement a Capstone Project to build a cohort of self-advocates in New Mexico. Products: Leadership competencies, curriculum activities/strategies, and methods to support racially/ethnically diverse self-advocates in leadership roles will be exchanged with the NM Council on Developmental Disabilities (DDPC) and with the AUCD network supporting the AIDD diversity objectives. (request to SH 7/7/17)
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees
Area of Emphasis
Quality Assurance
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Adults with Disabilities
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
